id field not a long

I’m using GSON to create a SugarRecord object from a json response. The API I’m using returns a field called “id”, but the type of “id” is a string, not a long (the backend is using mongo).

Below is the code I’m using:

Gson gson = new Gson(); // Or use new GsonBuilder().create();
NutritionPlan target = gson.fromJson(jsonObject.getJSONObject("nutrition_day").toString(), NutritionPlan.class);

Below is my json response: { "nutrition_day": { "id": "5342b4163865660012ab0000", "start_on": "2014-04-08", "protein_target": 157, "sodium_limit": 2000 }

Is there a good way to handle this scenario? I tried @Ignore long id; in my model, but that didn’t help. How can I change the type of the id?

[gabriel01]

Same problem here. I have to agree to tanzim. Even better would be something like sugarId to make it more unique?!

[tanzim]

IMO, the use of id as the name of the id field in sugar record is rather problematic. Lots of database design use id as a field name and they aren’t always an integer type, so using id as the default for records seems wrong. So today, if I have a record that’s like

class Employee { String id; … }

Querying for an Employee crashes the underlying SQLite implementation in Android. A sensible thing would be to to use _id instead of id for the auto generated id field in Sugar? What do you think @whoshuu ?